Event Details

In the UK and across Europe, careers services are under pressure both to help students into good jobs and to show they are doing so in outcome and employment data.

Meanwhile, job-hunt success is found less and less in on-campus-recruitment or online, and more and more off campus: via networks and the “hidden” job market.

The result is that careers departments have to fight a double battle: first to persuade students to take their job search off-campus, and second to equip them with the skills they need to succeed in a context where the rules are more ambiguous and the returns (apparently) more uncertain.

The 2-Hour Job Search

The 2-Hour Job Search method was developed progressively by Steve Dalton over the last seven years and popularised in a series of workshops in the US and internationally. Steve's 2012 book on his method is still in 2016 the best-selling jobhunt book on Amazon.com.

This popularity is based on giving jobhunters a precise process they can follow to:

Identify and prioritisetargetemployers;

Reach out to them and secure informational interviews;

Recruit a network of advocates at target firms;

Secure job referrals and interviews.

In this workshop Steve will present the latest version of his method and go through four main steps of the process in detail. He will show how students can be taught to:

Reach out with the “4-point email” - a template (of less than 100 words) students can adapt to approach people;

Follow-up professionally - A follow-up system which allows students to track and follow up professionally on dozens of interactions using simple calendar software;

Recruit advocates and gain referrals - A recipe for researching (in 15m) and conducting (in 30m) informational interviews to gather intelligence and recruit advocates who will help students uncover the opportunities available.

Steve will then show how careers advisers and careers departments can implement this process in their organisation.

He will talk about his experience teaching 2HJS at Duke/Fuqua and discuss how the team have embedded the method into their interactions with students. He will also draw on the experiences of other schools who have adapted 2HJS to fit their particular circumstances.

In particular, Steve will focus on the different types of students typically found in each population and the most effective interventions you can make with each of them.

Detailed Programme

09.30 - 10.30 Registration and coffee

10.30 - 12.30 2-Hour Job Search in detail

This workshop provides an alternative to online job posting “black holes” by turning the difficult topic of networking into something finite and replicable. In this morning session, 2-Hour Job Search (2HJS) author Steve Dalton offers an exact process – rather than a series of tips – for effectively turning strangers into advocates, leading to more interviews and better internal networks.

To create this process, Dalton drew upon the latest science ranging from behavioural economics to operations theory to social psychology to split networking into its three component parts: prioritization, outreach, and informational interviewing itself.

Each will be discussed in turn to help job seekers harness a highly-curated list of technology to get the right job faster.

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.30 Implementing 2HJS in your school/university

Where the morning workshop focuses on the process for individual job seekers, this afternoon session explains how to implement 2HJS across an entire student population to achieve the following benefits:

Increased student accountability and efficacy in their non-campus and post-campus job search (leading to better employment statistics at year's end);

Improved career coach satisfaction & reduced appointment duration through having a standardized methodology (and set of homeworks) to follow to address a significant job search challenge.

Steve will cover the four segments of the student population and explain how each responds differently to the 2HJS method. The session will focus on how to most efficiently address the needs of those four segments.

Finally, we will discuss which obstacles individual job seekers may encounter at each phase of 2HJS, and how most effectively to coach job seekers to move forward.

14.30 Close

Who is the 2-Hour Job Search for?

Steve has presented his method to students (both undergraduates and post-graduates) alumni and careers practitioners in more than 50 institutions in the United States and Europe. His method has been particularly influential in business schools and in 2014 the MBA-CSEA awarded Steve their 2014 innovation award.

Who uses it?

Steve has delivered this workshop at business schools and universities around the world including:

Yale School of Management

INSEAD

Columbia Business School

IESE

Cornell/Johnson Graduate School of Management

ESADE

HEC

Oxford/Said Business School

Queen's University (Kingston, Canada)

Rice University

SDA Bocconi School of Management

St Gallen MBA

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Tulane University

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Wake Forest University

Warwick Business School

Refunds

A full refund-on-demand is available to all participants up to one month after the workshop. For refund requests received after the workshop has taken place we reserve the right to deduct a £20 administration fee. Please email refund requests towebinar@sensiblemedia.co.uk.